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by ffhhttt 3y ago
The ability of the US government to tax any companies or individuals residing in the US seems pretty “real” (more-so than gold anyway..)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Is that because alcohol is a magnitude or so more widely used than any of the other (hard) drugs we consider to be harmful? That article is vague and I don’t think the overall methodology is that good, however it does say: “ The most harmfu
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Did they really invent it, though? It seems like most premodern societies functioned more or less like that it’s just that we have a lot more documentation from ancient Rome than other places.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Clearly you’re bot talking about per capita harm?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Yeah and narcissism should also be a protected class I suppose..
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Well yeah, but I was talking specifically about the French and Indian war and its aftermath when various Indian tribes still to some degree controlled a territory which was several times larger than the all 13 colonies put together. They h
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I’m not sure what you’re implying?
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Those were just the decisions of local of judges which declared that slavery can’t exist in Britain because without additional legislation. The British Crown and the upper classes had no issue at all with African Anerican and Indian slavery
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
To be fair they didn’t quite manage to complete it since at the end the British decide the Indian to keep most of the land the colonists expected to get. e.g. Washington and his soldiers were promised quite a bit of land in Ohio(?) as a rew
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> It's well documented that the word salarius is derived from salt, it's just very unclear why. It’s not unlikely that the connection between these were was already merely etymological by that time and made barely any more sens
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
I mean the words might be related but I don’t think there is any evidence that soldiers were actually paid in salt? Seem like a reasonable analysis: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/jfkkmk/
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
You’re implying that it wasn’t common knowledge that boiling water made it somewhat safer to drink? > which very likely created a notable difference between those drinking Well I suppose they were somewhat more drunk most of the time and
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Do you also believe in homeopathy? 5% ABV does not kill much. You’d need distilled spirits for that.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
If boiling is enough what’s the point of “wasting” grain if your only goal is to make the water safe to drink? Also medieval authorities to great effort to keep water sources unpolluted with outright draconian punishments for those who did
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> It was the common way to sanitize water That’s mostly a myth. > as the river was the source of clean water Also mostly a myth. e.g. they weren’t drinking water from the Thames in medieval London for instance but from the Tyburn rive
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> as well as water-borne illnesses How? There isn’t enough alcohol in wine to kill much bacteria, especially if you mix it with water.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
To be fair it went both ways. Also they were mad at the British for not allowing them to steal Native American land in a disorganized way. You had to go the Crown which would negotiate with the tribe on your behalf etc. Washington (especial
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> Salt -> salary is well documented Is it? At least for Roman soldiers there is no evidence at all that was the case. It just seems to be a myth originating in 18-19th centuries (like a lot of things in popular history).
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> The Saudis are making a billion dollars a day from oil [1] That was revenue (?) when oil prices were much higher. > particularly if it makes sure that they can't be toppled from the But yeah, I guess arguing about monetary amou
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> it's pocket money It’s not.
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> so if the owner wants a generator, it's probably a choice between having a generator charger vs no charger. Possibly. But I would expect this to be a very uncommon scenario. Unless you’re running a car race* for instance you’d h
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> In which case, it would be much less hypocritical if they either said it was for sanitation; Some might and do argue that various religious taboos not that rarely served very practical purposes (at least at the time they were establish
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> with a literal deity involved That was not necessarily the case in the most literal way at the time the bible was written (or rather it was a bit more complex that that). Orthodox Catholicism especially became increasingly more polythe
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
There are Carthaginian records of an expedition to Subsaharan Africa where they encountered fury human like creatures which they called the “Gorillai”. The name was reused in the 1800s, of course we don’t know it was actual gorillas that th
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Back in the day human populations very absolutely tiny, supposedly being reduced to 10-30k as late as 75k years ago. I would expect opportunities for any meaningful innovation to be very limited at such low densities. Anything “invented” wo
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
But how many of these actually practical and useful things were invented by NASA? I would assume in many case the issue was that some technology existed but it was expensive and difficult to deploy at scale which is not exactly what NASA wa
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
> whereas cheapest battery replacement costs are north of 25,000 USD/EURO sometimes 25% or more of the cost of the a new car. You know that not all EVs cost 100k+ as you seem to be implying. For a perfectly adequate 50k car the batt
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Do you really need 10 chargers at 250kW in such remote areas? Maybe 2 chargers 50kW would be perfectly sufficient and much more economical outside of freeways?
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Goldman Sachs continues to bleed cash from Apple Card operations(appleinsider.com)
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by ffhhttt 3y ago
Is there any way to make beer without having to boil the water at some stage? How do you think beer is made?

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